• About
  • How to use
  • Contents
  • Reference list
  • Credits
• Acknowledging the work of others
  • Citing your sources
  • Recognising the influence of your colleagues
  • Conveying others' ideas in your own words
  • Reviewing the history of plagiarism
• Writing up your own work
  • Publishing your work
  • Citing your own work
  • Co-authoring
  • Writing up research into teaching
• Reviewing and publishing work done by peers
  • Reviewer responsibilities
  • Quality control in electronic publishing
  • Journal publishing
  • Web publishing beyond academia
• Supervising and examining research students
  • Research skills training
  • Quality assurance of the submitted thesis
  • Formative assessment of the thesis
  • Editorial support for research students
• Teaching students from diverse backgrounds
  • Evidence-based teaching
  • Supporting transitions from previous education
  • Working with cultural and language backgrounds
  • Engaging with youth culture
• Designing and conducting student assessment
  • Plagiarism-proofing assessment
  • Checking submitted work for originality
  • Designing and marking group work
  • Teaching online
• Developing and disseminating learning resources
  • Compiling learning materials for your students
  • Using students' work as a teaching resource
  • Publishing curriculum and learning materials
  • Authoring reusable learning objects
• Handling student or staff misconduct
  • Observing misconduct
  • Following procedures
  • Applying remedies and penalties
  • Managing information about plagiarism cases

Acknowledging the work of others

Topic: Citing your sources

Self-test: Why and how do academics use referencing and citation?

 

List as many purposes or goals of referencing and citation as you can think of, apart from ‘to avoid plagiarism’.

Introduction to this topic

 

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